About this video
Pamela from Khan Academy welcomes you to the Hour of Code and shows some of the many things people do with code, from games to medicine to self-driving cars. She then explains the plan for the hour: interactive talk-throughs, coding challenges, and a free-form creative project, all about making computer-generated drawings, at your own pace.
You'll be able to
- name at least three different things people can make or do with code.
- describe the three parts of the Khan Academy Hour of Code: talk-throughs, challenges and a creative project.
- explain how an interactive talk-through is different from an ordinary video.
Key words
- code
- Instructions written for a computer so it knows what to do.
- programming
- The activity of writing code to make a computer do something.
- talk-through
- A video-like lesson where you watch code being written and can pause it and edit the code yourself.
- coding challenge
- A step-by-step practice task where you write code to show what you just learned and earn points.
- creative project
- A free-form task with no right answer where you use what you learned to make something fun.
Transcript
- [Voiceover] Heyyaz! I'm Pamela, from the Khan Academy team. So you're here for Hour of Code, right? That's awesome! I can still remember my first hour of coding, when I was a little kid, and now I'm on my 10,000th hour of coding, and it's still really, really fun.
There are tons of ways to learn to code, and there's so many things you can do with code, like making games, if you like PAC-MAN, or Angry Birds, or Minecraft, or, if you like Science, you can use programming to visualize the way the Universe works and help other people understand it better.
If you like Medicine, you could help doctors understand what's going inside the human body, because it's really crazy. You could make robots, like self-driving cars. You could analyze data. You could make websites like Khan Academy. There's so much you can do.
Here, on Khan Academy, you'll spend your Hour of Code learning to make computer-generated drawings. We can't cover that much in so little time, but we hope you're excited by your first taste of code and wanna go deeper. Here's what you'll do in the next hour. First, you'll watch these interactive talk-throughs.
They're kind of like videos, where we write code and we talk while we're writing it, and you can see the result of the code on the right side, and you can pause it, just like a video. But, even better than a video, you can actually edit the code that we've written and see what happens when you change it, and then you can turn it back on when you wanna keep going.
Now, remember, there's audio, so make sure you have speakers or headphones on when you're watching these. Next, you'll do a coding challenge. This is how you practice what you just learned, and earn points for completing it, going through each of the steps until you get them done.
Try to get through each challenge to the end, but, if you don't, and you're getting frustrated, don't worry, just keep going to the next talk-through. Finally, at the end, you'll do a more free form creative project, where there's no right answer and the point is just to have fun while using what you've learned.
And, hey, if this takes you longer than an hour, that's totally okay with us. Here, at Khan Academy, we believe that everybody should learn at their own pace. We'll always be here for you to keep learning, no matter how long it takes. Ready to get started?! Let's have a Coding Party!
Woo-hoo!
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